Everyone's Favorite Past Time: Putting That Guy In Situations

I thought this was math.

and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

But it does.

modern-day changeling tales

Hmm I wonder why ao3 didn’t like that

Based on the fic Abandon My Eulogy by @aroace-get-out-of-my-face

I don’t know why but this detail stuck with me for a bit. It’s like some “big shoes to fill” type stuff, idk.

There’s so many moments from this fic I want to draw, but I need to find the time first, so I decided to do a simple hour and a half doodle.

Hey I’m the Stan is earth anon and I just had a brilliant idea! What if the symbiotic relationship isn’t sea creatures but an anchor and sail? They are both needed to keep a boat functional, and while I can see Stan as the sail, I also see him as the anchor cause he makes sure that ford doesn’t fly to close to the sun + I see a lot of fics about Stan being able to tell Bill sucks. Ford would be the sail, cause when Stan and Ford were apart (I know that being kicked out has a major part of this too) Stan was stuck, and couldn’t really function super well. Plus the whole “Stan is riding on Ford’s coattail” thing fits with the anchor, cause the anchor does hold the boat in place, but without it the boat would be unsafe. Also the “Stan isn’t going anywhere in life” also works because Stan on his (being the anchor) cannot travel anywhere! Anyways I was rewriting lyrics and came up with this :)

Ooh I love that. Ford is Stan's sun but Stan is Fords anchor. Too very different ways of viewing each other, as Ford gives Stan life and meaning, while Stan helps Ford be safe and keeps him grounded, but can be twisted to be seen as a bad thing. Stan thinks Ford can survive on his own, but really Ford just kept going and going and couldn't stop until he crashed. Ford thought Stan would be stable and fine, but he was isolated and alone.

Very nice.

I have a fic idea that I'd really like to write, and I hope people would like to read it, but I'm too nervous to do so. I'm afraid people won't like my writing or that I won't get the characters right, etc.

As someone who's become really popular over their fics, at least on Tumblr, I'm curious about how you got over those fears if you had them at all.

I would not say that I'm really popular, I would say I am LOUD at best

And secondly, Anon. I'm squeezing your hands as I say this, literally every person to ever create something to gift to the world has been nervous.

Everyone. Every single goddamn person, you know why? Because we are but finite beings with brains BUILT to stress about things

I can't promise that people will like your writing. I can't say that you'll get the characters right, or any other placating thing.

The most important thing is that YOU like it. And you need to accept the fact that sometimes that's all it's gonna be.

It's fucking OUTSTANDING when people like your stuff. When people leave long comments, and those little numbers tick up, and you feel like you're making things that people ENJOY, and you're having FUN. It's so good.

But its not guaranteed. There's no formula for that, you could read every Good Writing book ever, take a Harvard class on Writing, do all the things

But your stuff will never truly be GOOD until YOU like it.

Because when YOU like your stuff, what does it matter if other people, who you've NEVER MET, who you might never meet, care? It hurts when your stuff isn't as big as you want it to be, there's no denying that, but it'll hurt LESS if you're not reaching for it.

Enjoy your work. Enjoy the process, enjoy writing, because I'll tell you a secret. If you like your work, it shines through. If YOU like what you're making, then chances are, people will see you enjoying that, and join in too.

I make stuff for ME, and I make things I'm proud of or excited by or insane about, and somewhere along the way people who liked it jumped on

My first fics? Not popular. Not at all. I got hate comments back on fanfiction . Net, I was LEARNING, and I'll always be learning, THATS THE JOY OF IT

You'll only get better. You'll only get more confident as you go, as you create, and you'll only create if you START.

I had those fears. I think everyone does. But it takes a special kind of courage to decide "fuck it. I'm doing this for me, and I'm afraid, but I'm doing it anyway."

And I'm so proud of you. For creating. For doing the thing. And I hope you do it. Please, creating is all we have sometimes, and while I can't promise whatever you make will be good, or that other people will like it, I can promise you one thing.

The world is better when you help fill it

Please don’t let fandom ruin something you love. Walk away and unfollow the fans and enjoy the thing by yourself, or find a limited circle of people who ignore the discourse, or get your irl friends into the thing and collectively ignore the Internet community, or blacklist from here to the moon if you need to and only ever scroll through your rarepair ship’s tag on AO3. But don’t let fandom distort a show or a movie or a book or a comic you used to love so badly that you can’t enjoy the original anymore. Please. It isn’t worth it.

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